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Author Wayland-Smith, Ellen.

Title Oneida : from free love Utopia to the well-set table / Ellen Wayland-Smith.

Publication Info. New York : Picador, 2016.

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 Farmington, Main Library - Adult Department  307.77 WAY    Check Shelf
 Manchester, Main Library - Non Fiction  335.9747 WAYLAND-SMITH    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  307.77 WAYLAND-SMITH    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  307.77 WAYLAND    Check Shelf
 Middletown, Russell Library - Adult Nonfiction  307.774 WAY    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  307.77 WAYLAND-SMITH    Check Shelf
 Southington Library - Adult  307.77 WAY    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  307.7709 WAYLAND-SMITH    Check Shelf
 Windsor Locks Public Library - Adult Department  307.77 WAY    Check Shelf
Edition First edition.
Description 310 pages, [16] unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [271]-294) and index.
Summary Looks at the history of the nineteenth-century Oneida religious community, which held revolutionary views on sexual equality and sexual relations, as well as the silverware company that arose after the community's dissolution.
"Amidst the religious fervor of the Second Great Awakening, John Humphrey Noyes, a spirited but socially awkward young man, attracted a group of devoted followers with his fiery sermons about creating Jesus'' millennial kingdom here on earth. Noyes and his followers built a large communal house in rural New York where they engaged in what Noyes called "complex marriage," an elaborate system of free love where sexual relations with multiple partners was encouraged. Noyes was eventually inspired to institute a program of eugenics, known as "stirpiculture," to breed a new generation of Oneidans from the best members of the Community--many fathered by him. When Noyes died in 1886, the Community disavowed Noyes' disreputable sexual theories and embraced their thriving business of flatware. Oneida Community, Limited would go on to become one of the nation's leading manufacturers of silverware, and their brand a coveted mark of middle-class respectability in pre- and post-WWII America. Told by a descendant of one of the Community's original families, Oneida is a captivating story that straddles two centuries to reveal how a radical, free-love sect, turning its back on its own ideals, transformed into a purveyor of the white picket fence American dream. - For readers of Jill Lepore, Joseph J. Ellis, and Greg Grandin"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Oneida, ltd. -- History.
Oneida Community -- History.
Noyes, John Humphrey, 1811-1886.
Social reformers -- United States -- Biography.
Collective settlements -- New York (State) -- History.
Free love -- New York (State) -- History -- 19th century.
Silver flatware -- United States -- History -- 19th century.
Tableware -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
HISTORY / United States / 19th Century.
HISTORY / United States / State & Local / New England (CT, MA, ME, NH, RI, VT).
Added Title From free love Utopia to the well-set table
ISBN 9781250043085 (hardback)
1250043085 (hardback)
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